Lucius Vibullius Rufus, sometimes known as Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus, was a Greek

Greeks

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 aristocrat who lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire

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Rufus was a member of a very wealthy and prominent Athenian

Athens

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 family. He was the son of Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus

Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus

Publius Aelius Vibullius Rufus was a Greek Aristocrat that lived in the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.Aelius Rufus was a Greek of Athenian descent and was a member of a very wealthy family who were prominent in Athens. He was the son of Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus who served as an Archon of...

, who served as an Archon of Athens

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 in 143-144 and his unnamed wife. His paternal grandfather was Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was a Greek Aristocrat that lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire....

, who served as an Archon of Athens

Archon of Athens

This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens.-Background:The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there was a council of archons which comprised a form of executive government...

 in 99-100. His father was first cousin with the prominent Greek sophist Herodes Atticus

Herodes Atticus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, otherwise known as Herodes Atticus was a very distinguished, rich Greek aristocrat who served as a Roman Senator and a Sophist. He is notable as a proponent in the Second Sophistic by Philostratus.-Ancestry and Family:Herodes Atticus...

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Rufus was married before 160 and had at least one son, Lucius Vibullius, whom Herodes Atticus adopted as his son sometime after 160, and became known as Lucius Vibullius Claudius Herodes. Herodes Atticus with his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla

Aspasia Annia Regilla

Aspasia Annia Regilla, full name Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla , was a wealthy, aristocratic and influential Roman woman, who was a distant relative of several Roman Emperors and Roman Empresses. She was the wife of the prominent Greek Herodes Atticus .-Genealogy:Regilla was born...

, had betrothed their second daughter Athenais

Athenais (daughter of Herodes Atticus)

Marcia Annia Claudia Alcia Athenais Gavidia Latiaria , otherwise most commonly known as Athenais was a Roman noblewoman of Greek Athenian and Italian Roman descent who lived in the Roman Empire.-Ancestry and Family:...

 to Rufus, although they were paternal second cousins.

In 160 Rufus married Athenais as his second wife, while this was Athenais’ first marriage. In the next year, Athenais bore Rufus a son, Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus (grandson of Herodes Atticus)

Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was a Roman noble of Greek Athenian and Italian Roman descent who lived in the Roman Empire.Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus was the son born to the Aristocrat Lucius Vibullius Rufus and the noblewoman Athenais . He had an elder paternal half brother called Lucius Vibullius...

, but died shortly after.